Estrecho De Magallenes

The Estrecho De Magallenes was a starliner that mysteriously turned up empty of all crew and passengers...

Description / Specifications

A starliner.

History and background

In 803 the twelve hundred tonne passenger ship Estrecho De Magallenes left Ghesaak (Dagudashaag 2437) for Luukha (Dagudashaag 2237). It turned up two years later on course. It failed to acknowledge all attempts to communication and as it neared the planet maneuvered into a standard orbit. It was boarded almost immediately and found to be totally deserted. There were no signs of life onboard yet everything was set up as though it had left port only the day before. The Black Box flight recorder failed to reveal anything except a standard jump with no stopovers. Passenger effects were exactly where they had been left. It was though everyone had vanished on the first day out.

Many theories have been advanced to explain what occurred. What is explainable is the ship's computer system was incapable of operating the maneuver drive or navigating the ship into a safe orbit without human intervention.

References and contributors

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Sapphyre." Signal-GK 07 (1993): 8.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 109.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science